About Me

I am a native of Illinois and grew up in Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago. I have one sibling, an older brother.
After dropping out of college, I moved to California in 1973 with my first husband. I married my present husband, Butch, in 1977 and got 4 children in the deal. They have gone on to make me a grandmother 25 times over and a great-grandmother of 19.
Three years after I married Butch I returned to school. I got my bachelors and masters degrees in speech communication and was a professor in that field for 13 years. I retired in 2001 to return to school and get my doctorate in folklore. Now I meld my two interests - folklore and genealogy - and add my teaching background, resulting in my current profession: speaker/entertainer of genealogically-related topics. I play a number of folk instruments, but my preference is guitar, which I have been playing since 1963. I work in partnership with Gena Philibert-Ortega with Genealogy Journeys where we focus on educating folks about Social History. More about that can be found at http://genaandjean.blogspot.com and more about my own business projects is on my Circlemending website.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

L. Roy Wilcox, PhD - Autobiography, Part 2

(this section and the
introduction pages are marked with “Redo-reorganize!!” No such reorganization
has been found in the original notes)

PREFACE

To my daughter, Jean, who commissioned this work.

Writing biographies, in particular the auto – kind, is one
of many things about which I know very little. Accordingly I have spent
probably more time in thinking about this project that I have in carrying it
out.

Probably this type of job is relatively simple when the
subject’s life is essentially single – faceted, at least so far as readers’
interests are likely to be concerned as for example, in the case of a great
statesman. But in a case where greatness, together with a consistent amount of
mediocrity, if any, is spread over a number of “facets” and where salient features
are far from constant over the years, the job is pretty complicated. This is so
in part because a simple chronological account of such a life must deal at
early stage with many or at least several related or unrelated facets; and the
results promises to be a grand hodgepodge.

Therefore, since I regard myself as a multifaceted (a jack
of many “trades,” master of at least two) I have decided to write my (auto –)
biography into parts with inter-part and in intra- part biography, cross
references kept to a minimum.

Part one is a chronological account in the form of a
collection of commentaries, one for each of us set of “eras” with relatively
little attention to the “facets.” Part two deals with the facets including
hobbies, special areas of interest, or significant pieces of my career. A table
of contents of each part appears at the beginning of that part.

In part one there is no implication of lack of continuity
from one “era” to the next, but there is enough shift in lifestyle, Outlook and
self-evaluation at each transition to justify the organization there are many
anecdotal items, some possibly significant, which should appear somewhere but
don’t fit well in part two; these are therefore included somewhere in part one
although they may span two or more eras. Similarly in part two, the various
items have sufficient identity to lead to their separation; yet there are many
inter-relationships, some of which have become evident to me only through the
sorting out processes in which I have been recently involved in connection with
this project.

(Note from transcriptionist: some of the “unknowns” about
the families mentioned here are known by the person typing this manuscript and
have been identified in footnotes, marked * on the respective pages, for the
edification of the reader. Numbered footnotes are from the original manuscript. This was transcribed using Dragon software and then hand-revisions, as necessary - JMWH.)

From NATIONAL TREASURE 2

Followers

Subscribe To

Copyright notice

Material on this blog is copyrighted by Jean Wilcox Hibben. Any information from a source other than Jean Wilcox Hibben is credited accordingly. Reproduction or reprinting of it in any way is prohibited without written permission from its author or the cited source.